Summary

The website content is a personal essay reflecting on the emotional journey of a highly empathetic individual who learns to let their heart speak and encourages others to express their own emotional truths through a heart-themed journal.

Abstract

The author describes their lifelong struggle with an overly kind heart that often led to being taken advantage of by others. After reaching a breaking point in their most challenging year, they found the strength to let their heart communicate its pain and wisdom, leading to a transformation that included setting boundaries and becoming more assertive. To help others on their emotional journey, the author has created a journal with hand-crafted hearts, providing space for individuals to articulate their feelings on various aspects of life, including cruelty, injustice, love, and forgiveness. The journal is set to be released on Valentine's Day, with a focus on colorful expressions over black and white, and aims to facilitate healing and self-expression.

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The author believes that excessive kindness can be perceived as a weakness and may lead to exploitation by others.
They express that not everyone desires a world free from suffering, hate, hunger, cruelty, or pain.
The author suggests that pain can be a catalyst for positive change, prompting the heart to speak and assert its needs.
There is an opinion that many people share the author's experience of carrying a mountain of pain due to their kind hearts.
The creation of the journal is seen as a therapeutic tool, adding wisdom, common sense, and assertiveness to the author's inherent kindness and love.
The author values the importance of self-expression and emotional release, emphasizing the need for a platform to voice one's innermost feelings.
There is a sentiment that color brings life and healing, which is why the journal's hearts are intended to be colored rather than presented in black and white.
The author acknowledges the support received from Dancing Elephants Press in their healing process.
They encourage readers to explore more writings from other talented authors featured on the platform.

If Your Heart Could Speak — What Would It Say?

My heart could think, but it couldn’t speak!

I was born with a soft heart. As a child, I would be sorry for everyone I see crying, sad, in pain, or enduring a crisis. That includes animals. I was told I felt too much. That can be a disability.

As I grew, I allowed my heart to do my thinking. The first thing humans found out about me is that I am kind. 99.99% of the humans I know took advantage of my generosity. Family too. I endured and stored a lot of agony inside of me and was liked because I was easy to scheme and cheat. I don’t create enemies because I am bad, I attract them because of being too generous.

I learned that not all of humanity wants a better world. A world where there is no suffering, hate, hunger, cruelty, or pain.

Humanity was forcing me to see Kindness as a disability. Forcing me to protect my heart.

I couldn’t understand how anyone could be cruel. The pain of cruelty is the hardest pain to let go.

My heart could think, but it couldn’t speak.

2022, my most difficult year, forced me to let my heart speak. I ran out of space to store the agony in my heart. None of my other organs would allow the magnitude of misery I endured from humanity because of kindness, in.

When my heart began to speak, the people in my life were shocked. They said I have changed. They didn’t like the new me.

Pain demanded change, allowing my heart to speak. There are billions of me out there who because of our kind heart, are walking around in a mountain of pain.

I decided to create a Journal to allow your heart to speak like mine did. My heart still speaks with kindness and love, but wisdom, common sense, and a stronger more assertive me are added to the mix.

This journal has more than forty hand-crafted hearts. I planned on putting in fifty different hearts. After each heart, three pages of freedom to express yourself is there. No lines are added removing boundaries. I hope three pages are enough for what your heart has to say.

If you want more, let me know.

Let your heart speak about the cruelty of humanity. Let it speak about injustice, disunity, love, thoughtlessness, kindness, forgiveness, etc. Whatever you have to say, let your heart speak!

Below are a few pages of what the inside of the Journal looks like. It will be on Draft2Digital and other places. Amazon for later.

If Your Heart Could Speak, What Would It Say?

P.S. My son is creating the cover. I planned on releasing it on February 14, on St. Valentine’s Day. I am still working on the cost as I want the hearts to be colored not black and white.

LET YOUR HEART SPEAK!